Islam and the Drive to Global Justice

Louay M. Safi is professor of political science and Islamic philosophy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar.

• IntroductionPart I: Reevaluating the Grounds for a Just Global OrderChapter 1: Islamic Rational Idealism and the Universalization of Justice, Louay SafiChapter 2: Justice in the Qur’an: Interpretations of a Universal Value in a Globalizing World, Asma AfsaruddinChapter 3: Sensory Aesthetics of Belief and Unbelief in the Qur'an and its Impact on Interreligious and Intersocietal Relations, Abdulkader TayobChapter 4: The Islamic Inflection of Connective Justice: Between Cosmopolitan Civility, Institutional Relationality, and Intellectual Reflexivity, Armando SalvatoreChapter 5: Sharia and Freedom: A Reassessment, Mustafa AkyolChapter 6: Towards a Civilizational Ethos: From the Homo Moralis to the Homo Ethicus, Mohammed HashasPart II: Global Confluence in the Muslim SouthChapter 7: Muslim Intellectuals and Global Justice: A View from Southeast Asia, Khairudin AljuniedChapter 8: Toward a Justice-based Foreign Policy, Farid SenzaiChapter 9: Religious Diversity in Arab Society: Myth, Conspiracy, and Reality, Mohammed Abu-NimerChapter 10: Arab Authoritarianism and Western Complacency, Louay SafiConclusionAbout the Contributors

As the world is caught up in a whirlwind of multiple crises - social, political and ecological - we desperately need to read this superb volume on global justice from different perspectives including the Islamic one (theorized by Louay Safi as Rational idealism). Some 8 distinguished scholars deliver compiling reflections, raising a loud voice in favor of a more ethical order.